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A METHOD A PATH - ROWAN EVANS TASCHENBUCH

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2023** An award-winning poet
explodes the notion of translation  showing us the poem in a supple  malleable form 'Formally
inventive  rich in aslant borrowings  unafraid of visual and textual experiment  it is an
exhilarating debut' Guardian ________________________________ The poems at the centre of A
Method  A Path explore the turbulent transmission of historical and mythic voices that 'reach
across' time and place  and a fierce rejection of the nationalist ideologies that have sought
to 'island' them. Here  translation is a lived and open-ended negotiation  invested in the
potential for magic utterance and ritual action in spite of language's violence: 'words   tear
their wing bones   and grow new heads   in the wound ('On Eglond'). Each poem or sequence
gathers around a different instance of dialogue or communication with others: with other voices
and languages  with other authors and found texts  with other species. They also mark a record
of Evans' interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists and performers through his work
both as writer and sound artist. The physical and textual landscapes of the book move from the
flooded and wooded terrains of Somerset and East Anglia  to the burnt hills of Andalusía in the
company of Federíco García Lorca  the poems always inhabiting a place between Evans' own words
and external voices - whether via translation  haunting  or invocation. In this 'tirelessly
inventive  substantial collection of vivid lyrical work' (Denise Riley  Eric Gregory Awards) 
the truant strangeness of the more-than-human world is made present in its ability to warp and
transform the poet's voice  where 'even the ground under your feet is a fluid  malleable
surface' (Kayo Chingonyi).

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